“Painting the Palio is a dream come true” – Corriere di Siena
Sergeant Emma will paint the Palio of 2 July 2022. The assignment was conferred on her in 2020, but then everything stopped. In recent days, however, the common he will have his trust in her and therefore she and the opera, in June, will be queens of the Entrone of Siena.
“For those who love Italy come to me – he comments – it’s aindescribable experience. Also it is one light in my life, it’s like stepping out of a long tunnel And dark. It is the very height. I’m in at the moment Poland to work on the seventh sketch that I will soon present to clients. Being here helps me to study Marian iconography because I have visited the National Museum of Warsaw where paintings and works saved from churches that have been damaged or collapsed over the years are kept. In addition to following the directives to bargain and on the traditional elements to be respected, I want to paint one Madonna that is interesting to me, painted from life and taken from real life. Obviously, I will give space to the immense energy, to the soul of Siena, to the spirit of a wonderful city “.
The long stop for the pandemism it could also lead the Municipality to change its mind and rely on someone else … “I never feared it. I told myself, in 2020, that maybe a year, two or who knows how many would pass, but at some point this my Palio would become a reality changes Meanwhile. In fact, I am pursuing the idea that I had imagined. First, I wondered what one is and how it can be represented Virgin Mary today. Can she be an ordinary woman? An exclusively religious figure? A goddess Sumerian? How many things can it be and how many symbols can it contain? Visiting museums, reading, doing many searches between iconography, art and history, I have come to have clear ideas about what I really want to create. So let’s say that I had more time to make the Drappellone, but the ideas and the initial project the original ones have remained broadly “.